Approach to the Psychiatric Patient consists of more than 100 essays that address one of 10 carefully selected psychiatric cases. The essays reflect the breadth of modern psychiatry, the cases span the diagnostic spectrum, and the situations range from emergency rooms and inpatient services to outpatient psychotherapy offices. more...

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment , Dr. Norman Straker proposes that ?death anxiety? is responsible for the American society?s failure to address costly futile care at the end of life. more...